Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 11, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

A Country Club Hills man is behind bars after sheriff’s deputies searched his home and reportedly uncovered a stash of illegal firearms, drugs, and nearly $900 in cash.

Now, almost three decades after his arrest, a judge will decide whether to release Robert Johnson later this month.

Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are bracing for potential mass deportation.

corrections officers, kitchen staff and others. One complaint, representing 89 people, names the state of Illinois and two state agencies, while 44 other individual complaints name Cook County, which ...

Robert Taylor was convicted by a Macomb County jury in December 2010 of first-degree murder, carjacking, kidnapping, two counts of conspiracy and felony firearm possession for the Aug. 9, 2009, ...

Work crews from the Morgan County Correctional Complex in Wartburg are being deployed to clean up the area. Crews from the work release program have completed a variety of tasks around the county ...

When the state of Illinois shut down the century-old, maximum-security prison last year, nearly four of every five inmates ended up being sent to less-secure sites, The Associated Press found.

Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were ...

A Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office corrections deputy was shot and killed Monday night. The deputy has been identified as 39-year-old Basil Powell who worked at the West Corrections Center in ...

Powell was hired in October 2021 and was assigned to the West Corrections Center. A ceremonial escort took place late Monday night from St. Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach to the county ...